1906 Atlanta race massacre | Remembrance
Beginning Thursday, Atlanta will pause to remember the victims of the 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre.
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Beginning Thursday, Atlanta will pause to remember the victims of the 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre.
Warren Powell is one of at least 35 African American victims of “racial terror lynching” in Fulton County between 1877 and 1950, according to research by the Equal Justice Initiative. Statewide, the EJI documents 595 lynching motivated by racial animus in that same period. Now, community groups across Georgia are remembering the Black life, like Powell’s, taken by historical acts of racial violence.